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April 02, 2024 Sam McBride and Allison Morris on Jeffrey Donaldson’s arrest and what it means for the DUP
Northern Ireland Politics were thrown into chaos at the weekend when Jeffrey Donaldson resigned as DUP leader. He’s been charged with historical sex offences, while his wife Eleanor Donaldson has been charged with aiding and abetting. With a general election looming, can the DUP survive this crisis? Allison Morris and Sam McBride join Olivia Peden.
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31 min
March 31, 2024 Best of the BelTel: James Mitchell, the Butcher of Glenanne
Mitchell’s farm was the base of the ‘Glenanne Gang’, a mix of loyalist paramilitaries and rogue members of the security forces. The ‘Glenanne Gang’ were responsible for up 120 murders including the Dublin Monaghan bombings, the Miami Showband massacre, and scores of other sectarian killings. Martin Breen has had a run in with Mitchell, he explains what happened. This episode originally aired on 20th October 2023.
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25 min
March 29, 2024 Jeffrey Donaldson resigns as DUP leader after being charged with historical sex offences
Sir Jeffrey Donaldson has resigned as DUP leader after being charged with historical sex offences. The Belfast Telegraph’s Northern Ireland editor Sam McBride explains the implications of this political earthquake to Ciarán Dunbar.
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14 min
March 29, 2024 Ian Hurst: The Army ‘spook’ who exposed Scappaticci and accuses McGuinness
Ian Hurst worked with the British Army’s ‘Force Research Unit’ during the Troubles. He later exposed Freddie Scappaticci as the agent known as Stakeknife. Controversially, he also maintains former IRA leader Martin McGuinness was compromised, even claiming he protected Scappaticci. He gives his version of events to Ciarán Dunbar
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32 min
March 27, 2024 Simon Harris and NI, Sinn Féin heckled left and right
Tom Galvin and Andrew Madden join Ciaran Dunbar to explain who Simon Harris is and what he might mean for Northern Ireland. And with Sinn Féin being heckled from both the right and the left, we ask what it might mean electorally.
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23 min
March 25, 2024 Megan McAlorum: Murderer of west Belfast teen dies in road crash
Sixteen year old Megan McAlorum’s body was found in a Dunmurry forest in 2004 after a night out. Her body was found with 54 fractures to her skull, among other injuries. Thomas Purcell, who claimed to be 16 at the time, brutally killed her after picking her up from a west Belfast bar. He died in a road crash in Oxford earlier this month. Allison Morris joins Ciarán Dunbar.
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20 min
March 23, 2024 Pat McArt: Derry, the Troubles and Martin McGuinness
As editor of The Derry Journal during the Troubles, Pat McArt found himself a trusted critic and counsellor to political giants like Martin McGuinness and John Hume. His new book, ‘War, Peace and the Derry Journal’ chronicles Derry’s devastation during the troubles and the city's move towards peace. He joins Belfast Telegraph Derry reporter Garrett Hargan.
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34 min
March 22, 2024 Pearse McCauley: The life and crimes of the IRA garda killer and wife beater
*A warning, today's episode contains details of domestic violence which listeners may find upsetting*

Terrorist, garda killer and prolific wife beater, Pearse McCauley’s long litany of convictions have established him as one of Ireland’s most dangerous criminals for over 30 years. The IRA man made the headlines in the early 1990s for a daring escape from an English prison, but his shooting of a garda in 1996, would wrap his name in infamy.

Host: Tabitha Monahan, Guest: Alison Morris
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20 min
March 20, 2024 Sam McBride's week in politics: TUV, Reform, Gaza and Biden
The TUV have hooked up with Reform UK but what is in this arrangement for both parties and who is Reform UK anyway? And Sinn Féin went to America despite of pressure from the left to boycott the visit, due to US support for Israel’s military campaign in Gaza.
Sam McBride joined Ciarán Dunbar.
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32 min
March 19, 2024 Millionaire heiress to IRA mastermind - Rose Dugdale, the renegade debutante
Rose Dugdale died in her sleep in a Dublin nursing home yesterday morning at the age of 83.She was the former debutante who once curtseyed to Queen Elizabeth, only to rebel against her wealthy upbringing and become an expert bomb-maker in the Provisional IRA. Fionnán Sheehan is joined by journalist Liam Collins.

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22 min

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The BelTel brings you some of Northern Ireland's top journalists, Allison Morris, Sam McBride and Suzanne Breen to name but a few, giving you the inside stories behind what is in the news. Presented…